Back to Personal Identity

International Workshop

"Back to Personal Identity. Revisiting the Significance of Persons in Contemporary Metaphysics"

16-17 January 2025

Sala San Basilio, Centro Congressi "Luigi Zordan"
Università degli Studi dell'Aquila

Personal identity was one of the most discussed philosophical topics during the 1970s and 1990s. However, in the ensuing decades, the focus on the metaphysics of persons has waned despite significant advancements in related areas of analytic metaphysics.

This workshop aims to bring personal identity back to the forefront of philosophical debate in light of the progress made in fields such as grounding, modality, essentialism, theories of persistence, mereology, causal powers, and many more.

For further information, please get in touch with fabio.patrone@unipd.it or giorgio.lando@univaq.it. 

It is also possible to follow the workshop via streaming: https://www.univaq.it/live  

Program

16th January 

09:15 – 09:30 Welcome - Introductions 

09:30 – 10:30 Eric Olson: "There is no Such Thing as Conventionalism About Personal Identity"

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break 

11:00 – 12:00 Hugo Ferreira Luzio: "Am I a Biological Process?" 

12:00 – 13:00 Fabio Patrone: "Being a Person vs Being You"

--- Lunch ---

14:30 – 15:30 Alfredo Tomasetta: "For-me-ness and No-Self. Some Remarks on a Recent Indo-Analytic Argument"

15:30 – 16:30 Liam O’Brien: "Why Personites Don't Count: Moral Status in an Abundant World"

16:30 – 17:00 Coffee Break

17:00 – 18:00 Alexander Meinhof: "Survival, Identity, and the Temporal Extension of Thoughts"

18:00 – 19:00 Tia Perkins: "What a Metaphysics of Forgiveness Can Do for Personal Identity"

Social Dinner

17th January 

09:30 – 10:30 Christopher Register: "Plenitude, Strange Minds, and the Significance of Identity" 

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break 

11:00 – 12:00 Ho-yeung Lee: "Higher-Order Personal Identity" 

12:00 – 13:00 Meg Wallace: "Transworld Persons"